At the end of the day, Yune walked back from the cafeteria in high spirits after having had dinner with Alvin, thinking that today had been a very fruitful day.
'I can't wait to see what we are going to do tomorrow in the practical class!' Yune thought excitedly.
Walking through the quiet campus with nearly no students wandering around, Yune suddenly heard someone speaking behind him.
"I can't believe someone so puny looking is part of that class while they kicked me out, saying that we first need to do physical training. Puh, like I need more physical training." The student scoffed, his tone sounding angry.
However, Yune didn't recognize the voice and thought the student wasn't talking to him, so he just kept walking.
"Hey! Has the fact that you are one of the few allowed in the combat class gone to your head already?" The angry student said, his voice now full of contempt.
Hearing the angry student coming closer, Yune couldn't mistake it anymore. The angry student was talking to him.
Just wanting to return to his room and go to bed early, Yune just wanted to quickly end the conversation. Trying to portray this, Yune turned around to talk to the angry student.
But, turning his head back, Yune was met with the student's fist coming toward him. Seeing this quickly approaching fist, which had a blue aura emitting from it, Yune didn't have nearly enough time to react to it.
'This is bad…' Yune thought as he didn't have time to even put up his guard, let alone dodge it. Fearing for the worst, Yune just braced for the impact as best as he could.
At that moment, a devastating impact hit Yune's chest, making him fly backwards, falling to the ground a few meters back.
Lying on the floor, Yune coughed up a mouthful of blood from his lungs having been pierced by the broken bones of his ribcage as a sharp pain emanated from where the student's fist made contact with him. "Ughh." Yune grunted, adrenaline not having kicked in yet to relieve the pain.
Even though Yune braced for the impact, he wasn't expecting such a heavy one, and against a hit to the chest, bracing wouldn't really help anyway.
Lying on the ground, pain was the only thing Yune could think about, not even fully processing what had just happened. But soon after, another thought was forcefully implanted in his mind.
"See, I am physically way stronger, so why wouldn't I be allowed in the combat class, huh?!" The angry student shouted, once again walking towards Yune. "After one hit you are already on the floor, pathetic! I hate weak people like you the most. A good beating is what you need to know your place again."
'I need to get up!' Yune thought, hearing the student's footsteps come closer and closer.
Fighting the excruciating pain, Yune got on his knees to get up, and finally managed to get to his feet, only to be met with another devastating punch to his chest.
Having been hit in the same place, his ribcage was now practically shattered. "AuAgGh!" Yune shouted, his body being in an unimaginable amount of pain.
And once again, the only thing filling Yune's mind was pain, a colossal amount of pain.
"We are not done yet, you white haired wimp!" The student shouted, once again walking towards Yune.
Not even having the time to think about getting up, let alone have to strength to stand back up, Yune just curled up in a ball, instincts he built up in the slums kicking in, before he was soon after met with a barrage of punches and kicks all over his body.
At some point, the student even began using his powers externally which was strictly against the school rules. Yune began feeling that some hits were stinging especially so, the student's hands and legs now having formed ice spikes on them.
However, Yune didn't know this yet as his mind was trying to drown out the pain, now not even feeling the difference between a normal punch and literally getting stabbed by an ice spike. Unbeknownst to Yune, he wasn't only getting beaten anymore, his skin and muscles were literally getting punctured till the point it had become dangerous from the amount of blood loss.
Having endured this for over a minute, his mind on the edge of shutting down, the barrage of punches and kicks was finally coming to an end.
The heavy breathing of the student could be heard next to him as he slowly faded out of consciousness. "You better know your place from now on, you hear me!" The student shouted before walking away.
Seeing that this hellish attack had finally ended, Yune suddenly felt tired and quickly lost consciousness, lying curled-up in a ball, his body full of bruises, puncture wounds and covered with blood.
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Waking up, Yune found himself in an unfamiliar place, lying in a bed surrounded by curtains.
His mind took a second to really wake up, only to quickly realize what had happened in a panic.
Throwing the blanket off him, Yune looked at his body in amazement. Not only did he feel okay, his body also looked perfectly normal without even the tiniest scratch on it.
'Did I just imagine that?' Yune thought.
But that thought was quickly disputed as a woman wearing glasses, and what looked like a typical nurse outfit, opened the curtains and walked in.
"Oh, morning. Good to see you awake. Does your body still hurt?" The nurse asked in a gentle way, a kind smile on her face.
Yune took a good look at his body once again. "No it doesn't." Yune replied, looking back up to the nurse.
As Yune saw the nurse writing something down, Yune suddenly realized that he could see that his body had now wounds, he could see his entire body… he wasn't wearing clothes!
Looking up at the nurse, who was still writing something down, Yune quickly pulled the blanket back over himself.
"Oh, that isn't anything I haven't seen before. I was the one to treat you." The nurse said, a cheeky smile forming on her face. "And don't worry, you are still a growing boy."
The nurse couldn't see Yune's face underneath his blanket, but she didn't have to as even his ankle, which was sticking out from the blanket, had turned red.
Being done teasing Yune, the nurse asked Yune a few more mandatory questions, before she gave him a new uniform and dismissed him from the school hospital.